Page Contents
- Introduction - Who is Help2Rent
- Universal Credit payments
- Help with housing costs under Universal Credit
- Private rented sector tenants
- Social rented sector tenants
- Getting ready for Universal Credit
- Landlords can help tenants to get ready for Universal Credit by encouraging them to:
- Managing your money
- Alternative Payment Arrangements
- Ensuring that rent is paid
- First Universal Credit payment
- Paying rent while waiting for their first payment of Universal Credit
- DWP checks on rent and tenancies under Universal Credit
- Changes that might affect a Universal Credit payment
- Notifying landlords that tenants are claiming Universal Credit
- Calculating monthly rent if a claimant’s rent is paid weekly
- Other rent payment frequencies
- Rent-free weeks
- Universal Credit and service charges
Social rented sector tenants
For social rented sector tenants, their Universal Credit additional amount for housing costs will be their actual eligible housing costs which includes service charges covered by Universal Credit.
Universal Credit will not provide support for personal utility costs, such as water or electricity.
If a social rented sector tenant has any spare bedrooms, their additional amount for housing costs will be reduced by:
14% for one spare bedroom
25% for 2 or more spare bedrooms
7843
Landlords Supported in 2023
7843
Tenants Housed In 2023
8500
Insurance Policies Covered in 2023
923
New Partners In 2023
COUNCIL PARTNERS
